Cycle Time Reduction

Our experience is that today quality is not a competitive advantage. Rather, the absence of quality is a competitive disadvantage… Once you’re in the game, you compete on flexibility, adaptability and speed.
                                    James Godshall, The Total Quality Institute

The process of Cycle Time Reduction (CTR) takes a unique approach to continuous improvement of systems/processes. This process was designed to enhance programs such as TQM, CQI, Six-Sigma, etc. The focus of Cycle Time Reduction is speed. It’s that simple. Building upon existing efforts, quality remains the number one issue. Speed will simply add greater value to the quality initiative.

Cycle Time Reduction is a disciplined diagnostic approach to process improvement. The important difference is that CTR examines the process by separating what the people in the process are doing from what is happening to the product. Most often we discover that, while the people are very busy, the product/service is sitting and no value-added work is being performed on it. This is particularly evident in business processes.

Cycle Time Reduction is not:

• Throwing additional resources at a process to increase speed
• Working harder in a process that is not working well, nor
• Rushing the process, or turning up the assembly line speed

Cycle Time Reduction makes processes more effective, yielding significant increases in adaptability, efficiency and productivity. To learn more about Cycle Time Reduction, contact Synergy Dynamics.